Ramblings on three originally Dutch TR7's (a '76 FHC, an 80's DHC and an '81 Sprint powered FHC),
including the work done to them and their (ab)use all over Europe. With some of my other passions thrown in from time to time ...

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

FHC resto nr. 55; The shape of things to come ...

I spend
some time on the exterior of the car today. With the boot lid fitted and the
bonnet transported to the shed, I thought it a good idea to have a go at
applying some of the striping and decals. I designed and fabricated these for
the car almost two years ago. Time to see how some of them look in reality when
applied to the fresh paint job. To start with the slightly adapted "Triumph
TR7" boot lid decal. Was a bit fiddly to apply due to the various tiny sharp
edges and very small "loose" parts. But after 15 minutes of carefully
fiddling about it was in place. And it looks rather nice in my humble opinion.
Spot the difference with the original decal ...

Next were
the TR7 decals that are below the black grill-like inserts in the rear wings.
Rather straight forward, though getting their alignment right wasn't ...

And to finish
the day I had a go at fitting two parts of the actual striping, to the bonnet. I
thought these would be the easy ones, sadly not. The adhesive backing foil,
meant to keep all parts in the correct position had a bit a mind of its own. So
it was all a bit of a challenge to keep the lines parallel while removing the backing
foil. Yes I used soapy water to aid positioning, but the backing foil was
slightly more sticky than anticipated. So rather difficult to keep the parallel
alignment of the three stripes correct while removing the backing foil. But I got
them positioned more or less in the correct position in the end (yes not 100% satisfied) ...